Larson, who serves as artistic director for Aesthetic of Waste, directed the company's staging of “Fatboy.” Before the show begins, audiences walk in to the animalistic sounds of the cast hooting and cackling backstage, an unsettling welcome that is precisely right for what is about to unfold.

“Fatboy,” written by John Clancy, is the over-the-top tale of Fatboy (Sam Weiner) and his bullying bride, Fudgie (Abigail Entsminger), a Punch-and-Judy-esque couple of unquenchable appetites. Virtually everything that comes into his path is either consumed or killed; her pursuits are more carnal. (At his trial for various crimes, she even pursues the prosecutor.)

The show, presented with a look drawn from carnival puppet shows, has a bracing, anything-can-happen energy that suits the story well. Every choice, from the bedsheets that make up the curtains to the costuming and the clown makeup sported by Weiner and Entsminger, make sense in the “Fatboy” universe.”

The play is funny, but it also serves as a pointed commentary on American excess.

The show is unlike anything else onstage right now in San Antonio. And it definitely whets the appetite for the Aesthetic of Waste's next undoubtedly offbeat offering.

“Fatboy” can be seen at 8 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays through Feb. 23 at the Overtime Theater, 1203 Camden. Tickets cost $8. Call 210-557-7562 for reservations. The show is part of the “Aesthetic of Weekend” series of performances, which includes “We Stole This” at 10:30 p.m. Fridays; tickets cost $5. A visual art piece, “An Afternoon with Internationally-Renowned Artist, Hilda Kinder” takes place at 2 p.m. Saturday; and “The Artist is Drunk” is at 9:45 p.m. Feb 23.